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No. 400,868. Patented Apr. 2', 1889.

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I. G. MILLER. GIGAR MoLD.

No. 400,868. Patented Apr. 2, 1889.

NITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

FREDRICK C. MILLER, 0F NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

IGAR-'MOL-D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,868, dated April 2,Issa Application ned January s, 1887. serial No. 223,232. or@ maa.)

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, FREDEICK C. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Molds, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of molds in which the lower cups areformed in a revoluble drum or formed separately and secured thereto; butwith the manner of constructing these lower cups my present inventionhas nothing to do, it being confined to certain features of noveltywhich are hereinafter particularly pointed out in the claims, beingfirst fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure I is a view showing a portion of the machine in endelevation, the slats having the upper cups and the drum having the lowercups being omitted. Fig. II is a side elevation of the complete machine,showing in dotted lines the slat to which is secured vone of the uppercups elevated and the corresponding lower cup. Fig. III is a sectionalview showing certain details hereinafter particularly referred to. Fig.IV is an elevation of the larger endof the drum and of the slats towhich are secured the upper cups, two of the said slats being shown bydotted lines in elevated position. Fig. Vis an end elevation showing thesame parts slightly modified in construction. Fig. VI is an elevation ofone of the upper cups and the slat to which it is secured. Fig. VII is adetail view of a disk hereinafter referred to.

A is the base-board, from which two standardsJ ct', project upward, saidstandards being correspondingly perforated for the passage of a longbolt, b, which constitutes the shaft or axle upon which the drum c ismounted The drum may be mounted to turn loosely upon the bolt b, or itmay be fixed thereto and said bolt mounted so as to turn in the bearingswhich the standards afford, it being held in place by a nut, b. The drumis provided with the lower cups of the mold, (technically so called,)being those portions in which the material for the fillers is'placed,these cups being shown in the drawings as cut directly into the surfaceof the drum.

This, however, is entirely yimmaterial so far as the present inventionis concerned, and they maybe made separately and secured thereto, ifdesired. The upper cups, d, are carried by slats e, which are hinged inthe manner hereinafter described, said cups being either formed in saidslats or formed separately and attached thereto, as shown in thedrawings, this latter method being preferred. Each of the cups d mayhave a separate slat, as shown in Figs. II, IV, and VI, or each slatInay carry one, two, three, or more cups, as shown in Fig. V, inwhichcase the drum is not round, but is provided with as many iiatsurfaces as there are slats. The slats e are considerably longer thanthe cups d, which are secured to them, and are perforated, as at c', ata point remote from said cups for the passage of a pin or piece of wire,f, by which they are hinged to a head or disk, r, which is fixed to andturns with the drum c. It is obvious that the object of thisconstruction is primarily to form a hingejoint for the slats e, and atthe same time cause them to move with the drum, the relation between theslats and drum being such that when the slats are lowered into thepositions shown in the drawings the upper cups, d, will correspond withand be guided into the lower cups for compressing the tobacco containedin the latter inthe ordinary manner. To this end the details in theconstruction may be infinitely varied without departing from the spiritof my invention. The construction which I prefer is that shown in thedrawings. A hollow sleeve, h, havingl an annular flange at each end, isplaced upon the axle b and secured at one end to thejend of the drum cby screwspassing throughthe perforations in its iiange h', the outerface of the flange h at its oppositeend being provided with an annulargroove of semicircular shape in cross-section. y

t' is a cenorally-perforated disk corresponding in size to the liange h,and provided with an annular groove which is the counterpart of thegroove in said flange, so that when said disk is placed against saidange the two grooves unite and form an annular cavity of circular shapein cross-section, as shown in Fig. III. The flange h and the `disk larealso provided at their peripheries with radial ICO notches j, havingparallel sides extending inward som e distan ce beyond the annulargroove mentioned, said notches being designed to receive the perforatedends of the slats e. To secure these parts together, a piece of wire, f,of the proper length is passed through the perforations c of as manyslats e as it is desired to employ, the disk g (formed by thecombination of the flange 7L and disk ff) being provided with acorresponding number of notchesj. The wire is then bent into circu' larshape and the slats so distributed thereon as to bring their perforatedends into their respective notches j and their cups opposite the cups inthe drum, whereupon the wire f may be placed in the groove in the flangeh. If the disk i. be then placed so that its notches 7' will registerwith those of the flange 7L, it may be brought in Contact therewith, asshown in Fig. III, thereby confining the wire f, so that it willconstitute a hinge for all the slats. The object which it is desired toaccomplish byhinging these slats @such a great distance from thematrices of the mold is to cause the upper cups to move substantiallyparallel to surface of the drum when entering the lower cups. To thisend also the drum is made of slightly conical form7 the disk g to whichthe slats are hinged being somewhat less in diameter than thesaid drum.

7c is a flange or band, which is formed on the inner face of thestandard a and projects over the free extremities of the slats e, asshown in Fig. II. This flange for a greater part is concentric with thedrum, but for a short distance is eccentric or tangential, as shown inFig. I, a portion of it being cut away, as at a1, to permit theelevation of the slats. The tobacco being placed in the lower cup, theupper cup is brought down to place and the drum revolved in thedirection shown by the arrow, whereupon the eccentric portion of theflange will force the upper cups into the lower cups a sufficientdistance to compress the fillers to the desired extent. lVhen socompressed, the concentric portion of the flange or band will hold theupper cups to place until they arrive at the op enin g or cut-awayportion x, whereupon the slats carrying the upper cups may be elevatedinto the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. II and the moldedbunches or fillers removed for being wrapped. The cups thus emptied. maythen be a-gain filled with fresh tobacco, the upper cup brought down toposition shown by full lines in Fig. II, and the drum partiallyrevolved, so as to carry the slat of mold just filled beneath theflangeK and bring the next mold containing a pressed filler opposite thecutaway portion in readiness to be emptied and again filled, and so on.

Formed integrally with the disk t' is a ratchet wheel, t', with whichengages a pawl, Z, pivoted tothe side of a lever, on, journaled upon theshaft l), whereby the drum c may be rotated in the proper direction. Thelever fm has a toe n which nro'eets downward between a.

pair of lugs, o, projecting from the inner face of" a standard, a',whereby the movement of the lever is limited to such distance as isnecessary to revolve the drum an extent equal to the distance apart oftwo adjacent slats, c, the ratchet-wheel being shown here as providedwith a tooth for each slat.

Having thus described iny invention, the following is what I claim asnew therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent, to wit:

l. The combination, with a revoluble drum having the lower cups arrangedparallel with its axis, of the slats hinged at one end to said drum, soas to project over the lower cups parallel therewith, and the upper cupsse# cured to said slats, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a revoluble drum having the lower cups arrangedparallel with its axis and a disk having connection with said drum, soas to revolve therewith, ofthe slats of greater length than said cupshinged to said disk, so as to project over the lower cups paralleltherewith, and the upper cups carried by said slats, substantially asset forth.

3. The combination, with a frusto-conieal drum having the lower cupsarranged parallel with its axis, of the hinged slats of greater lengththan said cups projecting over the lower cups, and the upper cupscarried by said slats, substantially as set forth.

l. rlhe combination, with a revoluble drum having the lower cups and theslats hinged at one end and carrying the upper cups, and a bandpartially surrounding said drum and embracing said slats near their freeextremities, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the rotary drum having the lower cups, of theslats carrying the upper cups and hinged at one end, and the stationaryband or flange projecting over the free extremities of said slats andformed in part concentric with the drum, substantially as set forth.

C. The combhiation, with the drum having the lower cups, of the slatshinged at one end and carrying the upper cups, and the stationary bandor flange projecting over the free ends of said slats, said band orflange being in part concentric with the drum and in part tangentialthereto, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination, with the drum having the lower cups, of the slatscarrying the upper cups, said slats being of greater length than saidcups, the disk to which said slats are hinged, and the connection hbetween said disk and drum, substantially as set forth.

8. rlhe combination, with the revoluble drum having the lower cups, ofthe hinged slats carrying the upper cups, and the disk connected to thedrum and having the radial notches for the reception of `the ends ofsaid slats, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination, with the revoluble drum having the lower cups, ofthe hinged slats carrying upper cups, said slats having perforations e',the flange h, carried by the IOO IIO

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drum and having the notches in its periphery and the annular grooves inits outer face, the Wiref, passed through said perforations andoccupying said groove, and the disk z', having notches and an annulargroove corresponding to the flange h, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

1Q. The combination, with ay rotary drum having -a number of iatsurfaces and the lower cups arranged in said flat surfaces, of a hingedslat carrying a plurality of upper cups, substantially as set forth.

1l. The combination, With the revoluble drum c, having the lower cups,of the hinged slats carrying the upper cups, the disk g, car- 15l riedby the drum and to which said slats are hinged, and the sleeve h,connecting the disk with the drums substantially as set forth.

FRDRICK C. MLLER;

Witnesses FRANK C; MILLERi A. F. WNZEL.

